Low-authoritarians showed no better critical reasoning than high-authoritarians

Evidence

I was surprised that the Low RWA students did not prove more resistant to Christophersen’s influence. But they were not that much better than the Highs at critical reasoning in the experiments described in Chapter 4. The correlations were often in the .20s, which is about what has turned up overall in my hate literature experiments. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 4346

Categorization

• XREF: Contradicts the intuitive assumption that non-authoritarians would be more resistant to propaganda; connects to broader findings that critical-thinking skills are broadly weak across groups.